Covenant Corner

*Providing couples with monthly insight, wisdom, and tools to maintain a strong marital bond. *

This Month's Focus:
 

What is Love?

1 Corinthians 13: 1-3

In 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 Paul gives us a great description of love in terms of its characteristic traits. In addition to thinking of love as described in Corinthians, we also want you to think about this explanation of what love is. Love is

  L-Living

O-Out

    V-Victory

       E- Everyday

In other words, there should be some victory in your relationship everyday. Whether it is a collective victory for you as a couple or an individual victory that you share with your spouse, there should be something to  celebrate each and everyday of your lives. Often times we spend most of our time and energy focusing on the negative issues in the relationship rather than looking for the positives.

What if we began to thank God daily for the victory of a strong marriage? What if we worshipped God each time we were able to resolve a conflict without blowing up at one another? What if we began to look at "love" in a different way...learning to live out victory everyday regardless of our circumstances or situation?

Try this Exercise: Don't just celebrate love this month, celebrate love for a lifetime. Practice demonstrating love to your spouse using the characteristics in 1 Corinthians 13.